Recipe: Yummy Red velvet cake

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The cake mixture should be bright red, it will get a little darker as it cooks. Red velvet is a wonderful chocolate cake alternative, something a little different and is perfect for any celebration. And unlike a lot of chocolate sponge recipes, which have a tendency to dry out quite quickly, I can safely say that this stays moist and still tastes fresh a few days later, making it a perfect cake to make in advance. You can cook Red velvet cake using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Red velvet cake

1. You need 2 cup of Flour.
2. Prepare 1 tsp of Baking powder.
3. You need 1/2 tsp of Salt.
4. It's 1/2 tsp of Coffee powder.
5. You need 1 cup of Oil or Butter.
6. It's 1 cup of Castor Sugar.
7. It's 2 of Eggs.
8. It's 1 tbsp of White Vinegar.
9. You need 1 cup of Buttermilk.
10. Prepare of Red food color.

Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the eggs, then add the cocoa powder and the food colour. Beat in the flour and buttermilk, alternately, one-third at a time. Red Velvet Cake is not just a chocolate cake with red food colouring added.

Red velvet cake step by step

1. Beat the ingredients.
2. Weigh the mixture and divide into two equal portions..
3. Grease the pans with the oil and line with the butter paper..
4. Pour the batter half equally in to two pans..
5. Put the pans in preheat oven and bake them..
6. Cut the cake into the layers..
7. Spread cream cheese frosting between the layers..
8. Cover the whole cake with the frosting..
9. Make crumbs of red velvet sponge and sprinkle on the cake..

This cake is softer than most, "velvet-like", and the chocolate taste is actually quite mild. It's more like a cross between a vanilla and chocolate cake with a very subtle tang from buttermilk. And it is generously smothered in a fluffy cream cheese frosting. Historically, red velvet cake was just chocolate cake tinted red from the acid in cocoa powder, not from food coloring. Nowadays most cocoa powders are alkalized, as in stripped of acid.